<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear members of the community,<div><br></div><div>As many of you know the Foundation received funding from JISC, Hewlett Packard, and M.I.T to bring together a group of developers to work on a re-architecture of DSpace. The need for this work was informed by a DSpace architecture review board that assembled and made recommendations. The output and recommendations made can be found at <a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ArchReviewReport">http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ArchReviewReport</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>A small team has been assembled, working close to full time, on re-architecting the core of DSpace based on the recommendations outlined in the above report. The end goal is to have a more flexible, modular architecture that can handle a wider diversity of data and associated metadata and their relationships. The team is being led by Brad McLean, the Technical Director of the Foundation. The development team working on the core are: Mark Diggory(MIT), Aaron Zeckoski( U of Cambridge), Graham Triggs( Biomed Central) and Jim Rutherford (HP Labs). This team began to meet this summer to start initial discussions and began work on the project in September. The first meeting of the team was held mid October at MIT, and output from that meeting can be found at <a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_2.0">http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_2.0</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>At this time we would like anyone in the community interested in following the work, participating in the discussion, and possibly volunteering to code later in the project please join in at the following locations:</div><div><br></div><div>-Join the <a href="mailto:dspace-architecture@lists.sourceforge.net">dspace-architecture@lists.sourceforge.net</a>, register at <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-architecture">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-architecture</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Follow the work being assigned to developers, their progress and be able to comment and vote in jira at: jira.dspace.org You will need to sign up, by supplying username and password.</div><div><br></div><div>- View the code in the sourceforge repository: <a href="http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dspace/dspace2/">http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dspace/dspace2/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Come see us at PASIG(<a href="http://www.sun-pasig.org/)">http://www.sun-pasig.org/)</a>, Wednesday afternoon November 19 in Baltimore, when Brad will give a presentation of the 2.0 work. (we also hope to video this for broader distribution)</div><div><br></div><div>-watch for Brads weekly email on latest 2.0 developments</div><div><br></div><div>The team will make a broader call for coding participation after the first release candidate of the core DSpace. We expect this to happen in January 09. </div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself(<a href="mailto:michele@dspace.org">michele@dspace.org</a>) or Brad (<a href="mailto:brad@dspace.org">brad@dspace.org</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Michele Kimpton</div><div>DSpace Executive Director</div><div><br></div></body></html>